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I started at the tech company Rackspace when I was twenty years old. I was thirty when I resigned. I had trained countless people and served our customers well. And in one terrible instant, it felt like none of that mattered, and the CEO was ready to have security unceremoniously...

Your company will live or die based on the “Attention Economy”.   Executives can doubt that at their own peril.  In the last 48 months, the world changed, and you can learn from the trends, algorithms, wins and losses of others to be a success in 2021. We know that sales...

Have you ever heard the saying “The eyes are the windows to the soul”? How is it possible to see someone’s soul through their eyes . The fact is, we can learn a lot about others from their facial expressions, and other people can tell a lot about us from...

Ottosson & Weissenrieder published 'CVA, Cash Value Added – A new method for measuring financial performance', re SSRN_ID_58436. It was followed by Weissenrieder, re SSRN_ID_156288, on the question 'Economic Value Added or Cash Value Added?' Shareholders have financial requirements on management's strategic decisions, that create value. Despite the importance of...

Today we are rushing into a new world where the money is becoming digital and a society that could go cashless. Sometimes other developments spur our ideas about money, but there are key moments when innovation in money drives broader changes--and we're experiencing one of those moments today. But what...

The COVID pandemic hit like a tsunami. Then, just as we were coming up for air, a second wave hit, then a third. As 2020 recedes we have cause to hope, to believe we can catch our collective breath and get through this. Recently we learned two effective COVID-19 vaccines...

Big Tech is moving into the antitrust gunsights again. For Amazon, the first shot across the bow has come for the EU in the form of two complaints alleging anticompetitive behavior by Amazon. The first complaint, in July 2020, focused on the Buy Box, a key component of the Amazon...

Companies have worried for years about how their workforces will be affected when Baby Boomers — the second-largest age cohort after Millennials — retire in the coming years. The best way to prepare for this “gray tsunami” involves a fundamental shift in how you approach career pipelines. As if COVID-19...

Work/life balance and personal life standards in the C-Suite can be a tricky subject. On the one hand, advocating for some semblance of balance or even blend can make you look like less of a team player, and you could be passed over for promotions. On the other hand, if...

A platform is any two-sided environment that facilitates an exchange between parties. If you’re looking to build a platform, you’ll need to navigate the complexity of appealing to both buyers and sellers. Here are four best practices for getting started. Iconic venture capitalist Marc Andreessen famously proclaimed, “Software is eating the...